an altruistic conspiracy/ an affirmation of nonsense/ we are what we pretend to be/ im pretending to want to talk about kurt vonnegut/ phonic tyranny over retching vomit/ even a formless turd can form words/ sentences, paragraphs, essay-length/ apa, mla/ brain’s plasticity defines you like a hairstyle/ mostly ephemeral/ im a fine-tuned dosage of demerol/ these pills will let you live again/ puppy mills behind my eye sockets/ we quit trying, so why knock it?